HERE is a story about how much litter is up on Mt. Everest :'( . I always like to think that as campers we are a clean group that do not want to leave garbage and harm the campsite. Leave the campsite better than the way we found it. I learned that in the Boy Scouts. Take pictures, leave only footprints. There are many similar sayings.
After I pack up, the kids and I walk around the site to pick up litter we may have dropped. They used to say " but it wasn't our garbage". I always respond, pick it up anyway. I'm sure we have dropped garbage unknowingly and someone else has picked it up. Of course everyone has also come across the campsite that is just full of litter from the previous occupant that you know did not think twice about what missed the garbage can. I understand the occassional wrapper here and there. Like I said, I know I am not perfect and have probably dropped some garbage.
I would think that those going up to Mt. Everest are similar to us, just going on a more extreme camping trip or hike. I find it sad to know that they discard the garbage along the trail. I am sure it is a vastly different site up there than when Sir Edmund Hilary climbed it.
Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer. Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.
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What irks me is campers with animals don't clean up their "poop". Also smoking campers leave the area full of cigarette butts. One state park where we stayed had a gallon jar of cigarette buts taken from campsites just to show the trash left.
I could not agree more, i hate when the fire pit area is loaded with cigarette butts.
I agree with the cigarette butt issue - as a former smoker, I am so thankful that my mother (also a former smoker) made me aware of the fact that butts will not magically disappear over time and need to be picked up. My teenage self thought she was being ridiculous and paranoid, but I'm so glad that I was taught to pick them up...and many years later am still picking them up, even though they are not mine. I often think that, in addition to health warnings on the packs of smokes there should also be info about how the filters do not magically melt upon contact with soil or water...
I've also noticed a lot of otherwise clean campsites with aluminum foil in the fire pit - I try to give the benefit of a doubt and hope that people just hoped it would melt or something, rather than intentionally littering...
And as far as realizing that something isn't 'your garbage', yes maybe it's a bummer to pick up stuff that someone left, but, then again, do you want to look at it for the remainder of your stay? I know it's unfair, but what can you do?
The cigarette butt is very annoying, 20 years ago or more it used to be the pull tab from cans. You could find them in campsites all the time, the scary part is if you look hard enough you still can. The 21st Century pulltab, which I hate immensly, is the drink straw wrapper form box drinks. I find them all the time on the ground, in my house, in my car, I could go on.......
Best Regards,
Norm
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